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Skyrim is 5th series of the epic saga known as The Elder Scrolls. Famous for the first person shooter and open-world view, Skyrim continues the Role Playing genre retaining all the favorite aspects of Morrowind and Oblivion while introducing a bunch of new features.
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New classes, new guilds, new civilizations, new state-of-the-art graphics and...
wait for it...
Dragons!
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Tips & Specs:
Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.8
Wine: 1.7.49-staging
Wine Installation
Note: Wine versions older than 2.0.2 and 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam.
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.49-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Extracting
Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.7.49-staging is installed and you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: skyrim
Click Next
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Check all three options:
Click Next
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
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Select Wine 1.7.49-staging
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Click "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK
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PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)
Check the following:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2008
- POL_Install_xact
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Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Click Browse
Navigate to your desktop
Select "SteamSetup.exe"
Click Open
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Click Next
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Click Next
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Check "I accept the license..."
Click Next
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Select Language
Click Next
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Click Install
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Click Finish
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Updating...
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dwrite isn't enabled yet, so there won't be any fonts
Click The "X" and close Steam
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "Steam.exe"
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Name your shortcut: Skyrim
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Skyrim
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 1.7.49-staging
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes the missing font and store problem
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Note: -no-dwrite will allow the fonts in Steam
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
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Launching Skyrim
Select Skyrim
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Login to Steam
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Select Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Click Install
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Click Next
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Skyrim is about 6 Gigs
When its finish downloading...
Click Finish
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Click Play
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Detecting Video Hardware
Click OK
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Optimization
Click Options
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Graphics Adapter and Resolution
Adjust:
Click Ok
- Graphics Adapter
- Aspect Ratio
- Resolution
- Antialiasing
- Anisotropic Filtering
- Detail
- Windowed
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Advanced Detail
Adjust:
Click Close
- Texture Quality
- Radial Blur Quality
- Shadow Detail
- Decal Quantity
- FXAA
- Water Reflections
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Advanced View Distance
Adjust:
Click Close
- Object Fade
- Actor Fade
- Grass Fade
- Specularity Fade
- Light Fade
- Item Fade
- Distand Object Detail
- Object Detail Fade
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Click Play
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Rule of Thumb
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates
Conclusion:
Skyrim ran beautifully on my GeForce 550 Ti with everything set on High or Ultra. Wine 1.7.49-staging does a great job and I didn't have too many issue:
Tree animation was not smooth and the shadows moved irregularly
Can not see underwater (underwater view can be disabled in the .ini files)
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